Litigation/Liability Trends
Slow Canadian Wildfire Insurance Payments Spur Anger in Burnt-Out City
Some five months after the wildfires that devastated Fort McMurray were extinguished, anger over red tape and the slow pace of insurance payouts and permit issuance is flaring in the remote northern ...
VW Pursues Final Approval of $14.7B Emissions Deal; Vehicle Fix Still Pending
Volkswagen AG is asking for a final sign-off on its $14.7 billion settlement with drivers as it continues to seek regulators' approval of a fix for 482,000 pollution-spewing vehicles still on U.S. ...
Blood Diagnostics Startup Theranos Slammed With Cluster of Lawsuits
Blood-testing startup Theranos Inc. is under legal siege. After being sanctioned by U.S. regulators, the company now faces at least eight lawsuits filed in federal courts in California and Arizona by ...
North Carolina Buildings Sustained $1.5B in Hurricane Matthew Damage
North Carolina emergency officials have estimated that the destructive and deadly Hurricane Matthew caused $1.5 billion worth of damage to more than 100,000 homes, businesses and government buildings ...
The Latest Launches From XL Catlin, AXIS and Take1 Insurance
XL Catlin added cyber insurance as optional coverage in its professional liability cover for design professionals. AXIS Capital Holdings will start offering U.S. customers cybersecurity ratings data ...
British Banks Underplay Cyber Attacks, Fearing Bad Publicity or Punishment
Britain's banks are not reporting the full extent of cyber attacks to regulators for fear of punishment or bad publicity, bank executives and providers of security systems say. Reported attacks on ...
Millions of North Carolina Chickens Killed in Hurricane Matthew Floods
Flooding from Hurricane Matthew has killed up to 5 million poultry birds in North Carolina, most of them chickens, the state's top environmental official said on Wednesday, hurting a major ...
Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf Quits in Fake Account Fallout
John Stumpf, who led Wells Fargo & Co. through the financial crisis and built it into the world's most valuable bank, stepped down as chief executive officer and chairman, bowing to public outcry ...